Chapter Four
"Okay!" Sharlnark proudly announced as he finished copying all seven pieces of questions. "But we have an uneven number…"
"We could… just pair up, and then the person left over, we could all do together!" Shizuku happily suggested. Then a murmur erupted on who that person should be. Eventually, everyone turned to Feitan.
"Well, temporary Danchou, who's the lucky person?" Sharlnark inquired with a smile as the rest of them turned to Feitan with a questioning look. The small figure closed his eyes as he thought, and then eventually opened them.
"Besides me, the person you guys probably know least about is… Kurotopi," Feitan replied, pointing to the blue-haired figure. "I'll go with Machi, Franklin can go with Shizuku, and Phinx, you can go with Sharl because I said so," Feitan finished.
"Hey! Why do I get special treatment!" Phinx grumbled as he teamed up with a happy-happy Sharlnark with a piece of paper and pencil in his hands.
"Oh, and Kurotopi," Feitan said to the figure, motioning him to come closer, and then whispering something in his ear. A short nod came from the figure as he bounded out the window and disappeared into the night.
"Hey! You better not have told him to go home!" Sharlnark told Feitan, who just shrugged.
"No, I didn't," Feitan said shortly as he jumped off his favorite ledge and landed next to Machi. "You can go first," he told her as he scanned his sheet, which was all neatly written in Sharlnark's neat handwriting.
"Okay. Well, your name's Feitan, you don't have a last name that you know of, you're twenty-eight, you're favorite color is uh… black, you're favorite food is…. hey, do you even eat? And…"
With Franklin and Shizuku…
"Wow, you know more about me than I do!" Shizuku said, absolutely shocked.
"Might that have anything to do with the fact that you told the whole Ryodan the very first day you were here?" Franklin asked.
"Really?" I don't remember…
Franklin: -.-;;
With Phinx and Sharlnark…
"And seeing that you are a rather rash and simple minded individual with no other source of power than your physical strength, I have concluded that you are from…"
"I'll kill you for this, Feitan!"
"Now, wasn't that fun?" Sharlnark asked the group. No one said a word. "Oh, fine! Hey, Feitan, where's Kurotopi?"
"Out to get something…" Feitan simply shrugged.
Machi's eyes narrowed as Feitan mentioned 'something'. "What is it?"
"…Something…" Feitan replied, a bit hesitant to give the information.
"Tell us!" Phinx commanded. Now our little 'Fei-kun' wouldn't dare refuse a direct order from his best buddy in the whole world, would he?
"…I sent him to the store to buy… something…" Feitan replied, still reluctant to answer.
"TELL US!" everyone demanded.
"I… can't?"
"Hey! I've got a GREAT idea!" Sharlnark interrupted suddenly. Everyone knew this meant another game. Just wonderful… yay…
"Are we allowed to guess?" Sharlnark asked Feitan, who slowly nodded. "Okay, let's play twenty questions then!"
"What's that?" Shizuku asked as everyone else looked at Sharlnark for an explanation.
"Oh, it's when you ask yes or no questions, and when you think you know it, you guess! And if you're wrong, you're out, and the rest continue, so you have to choose when to guess. Oh, and you only can ask twenty questions, and if we don't guess it after that, well…" Sharlnark trailed out as he dug into his pocket and took out twenty thousand zennies (or however you spell it) "Feitan keeps the cash! But if one of use gets it before the twenty questions, the person who guessed it right get to keep it, clear?"
A murmur of 'yeah' and 'uh-huh' erupted from the rest of the members as they sat once again in a circle. Franklin went first.
"Is it something edible?" he asked.
"…It… depends…" Feitan answered uncertainly.
"Only yes or no, Fei-Fei!" Sharlnark said happily as Feitan twitched.
"Don't. Call. Me. That. I. Will. Answer. In. Any. Way. I. Want!" Feitan retorted as Sharlnark quickly scooted as far as possible away from Feitan.
"Okay, okay, settle down children!" Machi snorted sarcastically. "Is it a fruit?
"No."
It was Phinx turn. "Is it a vegetable?
"Is it big?" Shizuku asked.
"Not really…"
"Does it have anything to do with your stomach and intestines and such?"
"…Yes, and no, and… wait, what item are we doing? I told Kurotopi to pick up twelve different things!" Feitan said, shaking his head as everyone sighed.
"Uh, then… do the last thing you told him to buy!" Sharlnark said, shaking his head as well.
"Fine," Feitan said.
"Okay, is it edible?" Sharlnark started.
"No."
"Is it hard?" Franklin asked.
"I guess… sort of."
"Is it something us Ryodan would usually buy if we went to the store?" Machi asked, even though hardly any of them did go to the store.
"…For the ladies, yes…" Feitan said simply.
"It's cosmetics!" Phinx said triumphantly.
"No, you're out," Feitan replied as Phinx 's triumphant pose quickly disintegrated into a sorry blob of goo.
"Uh, does it go in the aisle with all the baby diapers and such?" Shizuku asked as Machi let out a big gasped, covering her mouth with her hands, he cheeks a blazing red. Everyone now realized that Machi must have known what it was.
"…Yes…?" Feitan answered, suddenly a bit afraid of Machi and now Shizuku's reaction.
"Is it diapers?" Sharlnark asked.
"No."
"Is it baby food?" Franklin said uncertainly.
"No," Feitan answered in a small voice, for now it was Machi's turn…
Silence…
"YOU TOLD HIM TO BUY TAMPONS!"